9th annual conference of AFIS (Association of Franco-Irish Studies)

Welcome and Late Registration

Pôle Langues / Language Building, Rennes 2

Conference Opening

Lecture Theatre E3

Plenary Session - "A Voice from the Margins: Albert Camus at 100"

Lecture Theatre E3

Eamon Maher, IT Tallaght Dublin/ NCFIS

Confronting Approaches to French and Irish Literature

Lecture Theatre E4

Chair : James Barloon, University of St Thomas

› "Give me the unusual" : images contrastées du "half-and-half" et du café-épicerie dans quelques pages choisies de William Trevor, d'Annie Ernaux et de Philippe Delerm. - Michel Brunet, Université de Valenciennes 14:30-14:50 (20min)

› “Being the Not Wife”: Representations of Secondary Relationships Within an Irish Cultural Context as Evinced through the Literature of John McGahern and Anne Enright. - Michelle Kennedy, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick 14:50-15:10 (20min)

› Jean Giono, "the peasant-anarchist" - Gerard Connolly, Institute of Technology, Tallaght 15:10-15:30 (20min)

Confronting Approaches to French and Irish Literature

Lecture Theatre E4

Chair : Stéphane Jousni, Centre d'Etudes Irlandaises -CRBC Rennes

› The Free Forest of Utopia and Le Navire du Fol Espoir: Tennyson's "Robin Hood" in Ireland and Verne's "Les Naufragés du Jonathan" Around the World - Eva Urban, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge 14:30-14:50 (20min)

› The Novice in the City: Sydney Owenson and the Bildungs of Metropolitan Economics - Matthew Reznicek, QUB Belfast 14:50-15:10 (20min)

› Trains of Thought: Frédéric Moreau and Stephen Dedalus in Transit - Philip Geheber, Trinity College Dublin 15:10-15:30 (20min)

Coffee break

Language Building/ Pôle Langues

Visual arts : Re-evaluating the visual arts in France and Ireland

Lecture Theatre E3

Chair :Yann Bévant, Centre d'Etudes Irlandaises, CRBC Rennes

› Redefining Irish identity in films : Hybridity, Subversion and Universalization - Sonia Mezouar, Université de Nice 16:30-16:50 (20min)

› Irlande : cadrage et décadrage photographique d'un paysage habité - Pierre-Jérôme Jéhel, Gobelins-Ecole de l'Image, Paris 16:50-17:10 (20min)

› Picture that! Visual Representations of Irish Politics in Le Petit Journal, late 19th/early 20th Century - Grace Neville, University College Cork 17:10-17:30 (20min)

Reception : Rennes Town Hall

Rennes Town Hall, Place de la Mairie

Conference Programme